Bebearia innocua

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Bebearia innocua
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Bebearia innocua in Rhopalocera Exotica
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Bebearia
Species:
B. innocua
Binomial name
Bebearia innocua
(Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1889) [1]
Synonyms
  • Euryphene innocuaGrose-Smith and Kirby, 1889
  • Bebearia (Bebearia) innocua

Bebearia innocua, the innocuous forester, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Nigeria and Cameroon. [2] Their habitat consists of forests.

E. innocua Sm.& Kirby is similar to the of cutteri , but the upper surface is lighter, with black-brown ground-colour and hence with the dark transverse bands or transverse rows of spots standing out rather distinctly; the hindwing is bluish green from the base to beyond the middle, with some black spots in and behind the cell; the forewing at the base and hindmargin only indistinctly greenish; the under surface in the basal part bluish green with black spots, in the distal part blackish brown and at the inner margin of the hindwing yellowish; the black discal spots absent or very indistinct; the submarginal line is placed close to the distal margin, but is fine and very indistinct. Lagos to Cameroons. [3]

References

  1. "Bebearia Hemming, 1960" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Adoliadini
  3. Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Grosschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Grosschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .